Disgust has absolutely no ethical weight. If you are basing your ethical positions on the emotion of disgust you should stop, it is entirely unjustified and leads to a huge amount of harm.
Word for today: wisdom of repugnance
The logical fallacy that because something disgusts you it must be bad
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this is probably the funniest example of a tumblr user simply not reading the post theyre reblogging at all
just so you know, you have some followers who enjoy/write fanfiction. not saying their urls rn bc i don’t wanna air out dirty laundry in public but if you want them so you can block and report, just say the word and i’ll dm you a list
this post feels like it’s lost some of its original context because I remember reblogging it in 2012 when I didn’t have a smart phone and smart phone ownership was much lower in general. So being on tumblr on Christmas meant being physically at a computer and being visibly unsocial if not completely removed from any festivities. Now everyone’s on social media every day of the year. A true heritage post really
Before then, in the 00 decade that didn’t get a name, I was in a roleplay group. I had the least social life, and was in a position to see which holidays meant that the most of us were afk.
Thanksgiving.
Everything else, every other holiday, there were enough people that we could piece together a game for the evening. Thanksgiving was, consistently, when there was no one.
I’m not sure what that says about that particular roleplay group, or what it says about USAmericans and our holidays.
will never forget when i was walking thru the main walkway on my university campus and some dude hopped out from one of the side tables and went “hey youre tall you’d be good at fencing” and then handed me a paper to join the intramural fencing team and honestly wish i tried it out
”getting thicker skin” is great in theory but I think for some people “get better at handling your thin skin” is gonna be way more helpful advice. I have strong emotional reactions to criticism and they might never go away, but i can continue to try and handle each situation maturely and that’s the important part. Sometimes irrational feelings are chronic and living with them is better than trying to beat yourself up into not having them.
Yes let’s attack one of the largest blog on here for being skeptical. Let’s make absolutely certain they never help our cause and only double down on their skepticism. It’s not like they weren’t around during Tumblr’s Russian Spy epoc and Sixpenceeee’s Child Slave saga. Poorly handled from both sides. What a waste.
“Their goal is to sow division and discontent in the countries they target,” said a post on Tumblr’s own official blog. “What makes them so difficult to spot is that they’re not spambots. They’re real people who get trained and paid to spread propaganda.”
hi it seems that jeff also supports large blogs who are doubling down on and destroying hope for survival of palestinians begging for help just to escape the fucking genocide. im sure your huge gimmick blog will be fucking fine UNLIKE PEOPLE WHOSE DONATIONS STALLED BECAUSE OF THIS RACIST SHITSHOW. free blocklist indeed
Block me all you want- couldn’t care less. You prove OPs point. You are part of the problem making false accusations. I receive the same ask thirty times, from thirty different accounts, every hour. Can we use both our brain and heart or is your goal to attack and polarise as much of the silent majority as possible and only be left over with a handful of diehards wondering why not more people are donating to the vetted campaigns (which I would love to support by the way fyi)
yeah no ALL of this.
plus, having been scammed a few times myself by non-political bots and scammers, I have unfortunately become wary of the tactics they use, and they absolutely can, will, and do stoop so low as to pretend to be refugees. plus scammers know to use common names to avoid raising suspicion, it’s what makes the scam believable.
I know the whole “its on him if hes scamming me, but its on me if i think someone needs help and i dont take the opportunity to help them.” I get that. I respect the hell out of that. But you guys need to get a grip.
I had several side blogs that have zero followers, and I CONSTANTLY got the same message over and over from sock accounts begging me to share their story with my zero followers. I ended up deleting those blogs.
Anyway here is a good list of things to look out for in scam messaging as someone who has fallen for scams in the past:
Overuse of emojis (often an inappropriate amount or inappropriate in the context of the message)
Sketchy links from non-vetted sites such as bitly urls and the like.
(This one is especially if you get more than one message from “different” people): If they all use the same names and stories. Not similar. Not close enough. The exact fucking same with very little if any variation.
They begin the message with “Hello, dear” or “Hello, my dear” and overly compliment you for no good reason. Yes, I know folks in the middle east are very friendly and hospitable people, but they’re not so friendly that it would make you feel uncomfortable or like they’re trying to be inappropriate.
They insist you speak with them/add them/share their story via Telegram, Whatsapp, Kik, etc.
They bother low-follower, no-follower, or dead accounts for exposure.
This isn’t a complete list, but all of these are precisely why I have shared very few GFM campaigns across all of my social media accounts, blogs, profiles, etc. Good luck, and please be smart about this. I’m not falling for propaganda. I’m not being a racist, zionist asshole. I’m using my actual lived experiences with scammers.
Free Palestine.
I am convinced that they are copy pasting and assembling together the spam asks
I saw two asks with the same exact two sentences amongst others which had the same exact uncommon typos
And when I went to one of them the pinned post said that gofundme doesn’t allow Palestinians anymore and provides a PayPal
Which I discovered is banned from receiving donations for some mysterious reason
“who radicalized you” ever since i was a child i wanted other people to be treated nicely and fairly because i didnt understand why theyd deserve otherwise and it fills me with disgust seeing how people treat their fellow human beings sometimes
As someone who lost their father to cancer I feel this is very important to share. Please vote in 2024, and vote for those who care more about the people rather than bullshit politics.
(I don’t typically talk politics or world affairs but this hit me hard.)
i invite you over to my house and while we’re greeting each other at the door i turn around and yell “down boy! DOWN! NO!” and you just see a caterpillar moving very slowly across the floor toward you
Pls don't say/call yourself dyrke if you aren't a lesbian. It doesn't matter that you're queer you still can't say it if you aren't a lesbian so don't do it! Not trying to be rude just so you are aware:3
i ?? am sapphic ?? I do tend to use the label dyke for myself because I am . sapphic .
also isn’t the term dyke also used by bisexuals who are girls? i was not aware it was used only for lesbians, as I do know a few bi people who call themselves a dyke
it’s a label. It. Is. A. Label. It is also a slur. However, and this is very important, stop policing peoples labels. Stop it. It helps no one and forces queer people to choose a couple of boxes to fit into which is fucking stupid. The vast majority of the queer community is built on the fact that we don’t have to fit into society’s boxes so why the fuck are we building our own and then tearing the throats out of anyone who tries to leave their designated box and look around a bit? The queer community is unique in that there are a lot of slurs that also are used as labels in the community, which is punk and cool, but that means you can’t police someone for using a label that also happens to be a slur. Mind your own damn business and remember that the only wrong way to use a label is to tell someone else how they should be using it.
phineas and ferb episode that is rated pg13 so they are allowed one f-bomb. candace keeps trying to find the perfect situation to use it but every time she tries she gets interrupted or drowned out by a comically loud horn. meanwhile doofenshmirtz has made the censor-inator because now that they’re pg13 he’s convinced that vanessa doesnt know any swear words (she knows all of them) and that she’ll explode if she hears someone say “shit” so he wants to make the entire tri-state area child-friendly. he flies it over danville in his official blimp and a one-off joke is that his laser hits a rated r movie that’s a clear parody of the human centipede or someshit and it turns into a barney-the-dinosaur-ass psa. at the last second perry destroys the inator and knocks it out of the blimp and it fires off one more laser that censors out phineas and ferb’s invention before mom can get home. candace tries to finally drop her one-allowed cuss but her voice has given out. perry comes back and makes a little platypus noise (all of those have been swear words the whole time but because nobody speaks platypus nobody notices) and then part of doof’s machine crashes into the house (candace is in charge) and ferb says “what the fuck”
last year i was eating in a fancy, large restaurant when i began to hear a rumble and the distant sound of people chanting ‘potassium, potassium’ and suddenly hundreds of people dressed as bananas flood this restaurant chanting potassium over and over and we were trapped there for a very long time because the bananas would not leave and they were everywhere
i wasn’t joking
this post has haunted me for like 3 years. every time i start to think i imagined it, it shows up on my dash again and then immediately disappears into the ether for another 17 months
last year i was eating in a fancy, large restaurant when i began to hear a rumble and the distant sound of people chanting ‘potassium, potassium’ and suddenly hundreds of people dressed as bananas flood this restaurant chanting potassium over and over and we were trapped there for a very long time because the bananas would not leave and they were everywhere
i wasn’t joking
this post has haunted me for like 3 years. every time i start to think i imagined it, it shows up on my dash again and then immediately disappears into the ether for another 17 months
when gerard way sings “the broken, the beaten, and the damned” and when kermit the frog sings “the lovers, the dreamers, and me” they’re talking about the same people btw
I like that this implies Kermit the frog and “the damned” are one in the same. Hell is empty except for The Frog, alone in the fire
this post’s hypothetical by itself is already ridiculous but the thing that gets me is how the wording implies two very funny things that become funnier in tandem
1. “Accidentally, the pitcher tosses a Christian baby” means this is a mistake on the pitcher’s part. i imagine the pitcher is breastfeeding on the field and they pitch and they look down at their hands and they see the ball still in the glove and they go “fuck”
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